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Thread ID: 25666	2002-10-09 05:07:00	How Do I install a second Harddrive?	hayds (1829)	Press F1

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87431	2002-10-09 05:07:00	Hi yall, I bought a 20 gig Harddrive at a sale and want to hook it up to the beast. I currently have a 15 gig,(lame I know) harddrive. I have never formatted this drive and want too now that I have a new one. But I dont even have the new one hooked up yet. I have it all in place ready to go but dunno yet. I am currently running win 98, on a 533mhz pIII (lame I know) SHould I have the Bigger HDas the Master? Do I have to have both HD's with win98 on them? can I transfer folders and files to the second HD and have it run games and stuff on it that previously run from the 15gig HD? please help Haz	hayds (1829)
87432	2002-10-09 05:14:00	Ok Open up your case, stick in the hard-drive. Hook it up to an ide cable (flat looking thing) give it some power, and presto! Then boot up, go into the bios and do an autodetect harddrives. If this hangs, or does not find your new drive you need to change the jumper settings on the back of the drive. Once that's done windows should pick it up ok You should have win98 on the fastest hard-drive, which is not necessarily the biggest. No you don't need win98 on both of them., Yes you will be able to transfer files and folders across to the bigger drive. (don't move windows applications though, they will have a spaz) Thats the basics, to it, I'm sure someone else will post about fdisking (breaking the drive into partions) But get it going first, before you start worrying about the more advanced stuff.	roofus (483)
87433	2002-10-09 18:46:00	Hi Hayds There are some interesting articles in the following NZ PC World Magazines that will help you. AUG 2000 pg 114, Aug 2001 pg 132, April 2002 pg97 or go back to Dec 2000/Jan 2001 pg 136. or go to Google.com and search for installing 2nd hard-drive - hope this helps Laurie	Laurie (485)
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